Peter Wollen
British screenwriter and filmmaker Peter Wollen began working in films as the co-writer of Antonioni's The Passenger in 1975. From there he helped direct a few experimental features with the support of the British Film Institute, making his solo feature film directorial debut in 1987 with Friendship's Death, a science fiction film about a alien girl who crashes in war-torn Jordan. Wollen first gained attention as a noted British film theorist and author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema one of the seminal works on structuralist theory. Currently he is a film scholar who teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was co-editor with Jim Hillier, of Howard Hawks: American Artist, published by Indiana. (2/07)

Riddles of the SphinxA film by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1977, 92 min., ColorLaura Mulvey, author of the seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema , helped to establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field...

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